State Prekindergarten Money Competitive for Schools

STAFF PHOTO BEN GOFF • @NWABenGoff Carlos Martinez, 4, plays a game on an iPad Friday with help from teacher’s assistant Amanda Payerli in the prekindergarten class at Eastside Elementary School in Rogers. The class is one of two in Rogers that nearly didn’t open this year after grants that paid for them expired.

Word of mouth was the only advertisement needed when the Springdale School District added seats to a prekindergarten program this fall.

At A Glance

Ready For School

Kindergarten readiness is defined by the Arkansas Department of Human Services, in part, as a child who: